The desire to revise carefully is the key to clear communication.
I advise you to revise if you ache to be great
In an online world of daily and often by-the-minute production and publication, I am the novelist-at-heart who wants to produce only his best work and not let it be seen until it is utterly revised.
“But you have to get it out there: market it and spread the word,” the blogger in me beseeches. There is much daily infighting between him and the novelist.
“You can’t sell what the world doesn’t see repeatedly,” echo the voices of countless sale people I’ve met at networking events.
The retort comes quickly.
“If it’s not been carefully moulded and diligently reworked, it can’t be much good and shouldn’t be exposed to the light of day until such editing has occurred,” ring the voices of discontent from the writing workshop I attended with religious regularity in my 20s.
